![]() ![]() In 2014, the book won two literary awards, ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel and the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. The reviewers noted the distracting nature of the recipes at the end of each chapter, saying they could be easily skipped, and cautioned readers about the most explicit sex scenes they had ever encountered in the espionage genre. ![]() Burridge and Bradford also praised the characters as having been richly drawn, and for the avoidance of clichés, though they felt that the Russian supporting characters were not as nuanced as their American counterparts. James Burridge and Michael Bradford, reviewing the book for the CIA's website, praised the book for its authentic depiction of surveillance and countersurveillance techniques, calling it "accurate richly detailed", and positively comparing the book's plausibility to the work of John le Carré. Each chapter in the book, as well as its two sequels, includes a reference to a specific prepared food, and ends with a recipe for it. Other key figures are Marble, a Russian double agent who provides intelligence to the CIA, and Nate Nash, a CIA internal-ops officer who recruits and handles intelligence assets for the agency. ( February 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭominika Egorova, or "Red Sparrow", is a former Russian ballerina who is forced by her uncle (Colonel Egorov) to undergo espionage training for the Russian government at the Sparrow School, where people are trained to seduce their targets. You can provide one by editing this article. This article needs an improved plot summary.
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